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There are fears some people living in remote communities and in Indigenous town camps may not be able to vote in the same sex marriage postal ballot. As the cut-off date to register with the Australian Electoral Commission draws closer, it's still not clear how the Australian Bureau of Statistics ...

Alice Springs Councillor Eli Melky is pushing the council to approve a 10pm to 6am curfew for children 16 and under. Over the past few months, children as young as 11 have been caught breaking into homes, stealing cars and ram-raiding businesses in the Northern Territory town. But not everyone ...

The Northern Territory's recently-elected Labor government is following through with its election promise hold an inquiry into political donations, last Sunday it finally appointed a commissioner. Political donations are a big concern to the public after a recent string of scandals ...

Former Don Dale detainee Dylan Voller has announced he will run for local government in Alice Springs. Mr Voller appeared in a Four Corners episode last year, which showed his alleged mistreatment over a period of years. The 19-year-old said he wants to use his experience to give young people in ...

Fifty years after Australia voted overwhelmingly in support of a referendum recognising Aboriginal people, an historic summit of Aboriginal leaders at Uluru has categorically rejected further constitutional recognition, demanding instead a process leading to a treaty between the ...

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The ground is shifting in North Asia with the rise of China, a nuclear North Korea and Japan relies on the American alliance but Donald Trump promotes America First and wants Japan to contribute more to its own defence. President Trump is also talking tough on North Korea and challenging China on ...

British MP Damian Collins is calling on Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg to explain how tens of millions of Facebook user profiles ended up in the hands of a data mining consultancy. The British firm, Cambridge Analytica, then allegedly used that information to profile and target voters to ...

The history and political development of and . The two nations at opposite ends of Asia broadly speaking - show a surprising parallelism in their rise to and later struggle with democracy. There are similarities in their history and political development that make them unlikely twins - and that ...